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Breathe Counselling Perth

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Breathe Counselling Perth

A professional, compassionate counselling service for individuals, couples and families.

Ten locations and online: Perth CBD, Midland, Rockingham, Pinjarra, Wembley, West Perth, Mindarie, Albany, Denmark and Joondalup . BREATHE COUNSELLING is a professional and compassionate counselling service. We offer counselling services both during the day and after hours- addressing issues such as anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue and relationship concerns. We offer our services to individuals, families and couples in a safe, confidential setting. To learn more, or to talk to someone about a barrier you’re facing or are simply need someone to talk to, contact us on 0422 275 494

15/10/2025

How Identifying Your Feelings Strengthens Your Mental Well-Being 🧠✨

The ability to accurately identify and label specific emotions plays a crucial role in mental health and personal growth. This skill helps people distinguish between similar feelings (e.g., anger vs. frustration), which enhances emotional regulation, reduces overwhelm, improves communication, and supports stronger relationships. By naming emotions, the brain engages more reflective processes, lowering stress and fostering resilience. Emotional granularity can be developed through expanding emotional vocabulary, journaling, using emotion wheels, practicing mindfulness, and therapy. Ultimately, clearly naming what you feel is the first step toward understanding, managing and healing your emotions effectively.

13/10/2025

Life is full of ups and downs, challenges, stress, and unexpected events are inevitable. We can’t stop these difficulties from coming, just like we can’t stop the waves in the ocean. What we can do is learn how to respond skillfully, adapt, and move through them with resilience. By learning to “surf” life’s waves, we find strength, balance, and a sense of mastery even amid uncertainty. 🌊🏄

03/10/2025

🌍✨ Travelling for Wellbeing

Sometimes, the best investment we can make in our wellbeing is to step away from our usual routines and immerse ourselves in a new environment. Whether it’s a weekend getaway, exploring nature close to home, or a journey overseas, travel can offer powerful benefits for our mental health:

✔️ A fresh perspective on challenges
✔️ Time to slow down and rest
✔️ Opportunities for joy, adventure and connection
✔️ Space to reflect and reset

Travel doesn’t have to be grand to be meaningful — even small changes of scenery can help reduce stress, restore energy, and nurture creativity.

As counsellors, we often remind people of the importance of balance. Travel can be one of those intentional ways to create balance and support emotional wellbeing. 🌱

Where has travel recently taken you — and how did it impact your sense of wellbeing?

02/10/2025

Can therapy be helpful even when life is good? 🌼

Therapy is often seen as a tool for managing crises, but it can be equally valuable when life is going well, offering opportunities for growth, resilience, and deeper self-awareness. Beyond addressing problems, therapy acts as preventive mental healthcare, helping individuals strengthen coping skills, maintain balance, and prepare for future challenges. It fosters healthier communication, enriches relationships, and provides a safe, judgment-free space to explore thoughts, emotions, and life transitions. Even during times of success, therapy can help process change, celebrate progress, and uncover hidden pressures or insecurities. Ultimately, therapy supports flourishing, not just healing. It encourages authenticity, meaning, and intentional living, making it a powerful tool for thriving in both peaceful and challenging times. 💯

30/09/2025

How to Overcome Trust Issues in Relationships? 🤔

Overcoming trust issues in relationships is a difficult but essential process that requires patience, self-awareness, and consistent effort. Trust problems often stem from past traumas or betrayals and can deeply affect current connections, leading to fear, suspicion, or withdrawal. Healing begins by acknowledging the difficulty of rebuilding trust, offering others the benefit of the doubt, and remembering that not everyone intends harm. If supporting a partner with trust issues, it’s vital to show care, listen without judgment, and avoid pushing too hard. For those who have broken trust, taking full responsibility, practicing honesty, and forgiving oneself are crucial steps. Professional support such as individual or group therapy can provide valuable perspectives and validation, helping individuals or couples move forward. Ultimately, trust is rebuilt slowly through consistent actions, compassion, and openness, allowing relationships to shift from pain toward healthier, more meaningful connections. 💙

24/09/2025

Understanding the Impact of Trauma 🪢

Trauma is a distressing event or experience that can profoundly affect your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being, often overwhelming your ability to cope and leading to a range of symptoms such as anxiety, depression, flashbacks, and difficulties in relationships. Its impact can also alter your worldview, sense of safety, and coping behaviours, sometimes resulting in substance abuse or other harmful habits. While not everyone who experiences trauma develops PTSD, the effects can be long-lasting and vary depending on personal history, genetics, and support systems. Effective recovery involves seeking help from trained mental health professionals who can provide evidence-based, trauma-informed treatments such as EMDR, CBT, and integrated approaches addressing both physical and emotional health. By engaging in therapy, individuals can process their experiences, develop healthy coping strategies, rebuild their sense of safety, and move toward healing, resilience, and personal growth.

Take the first step toward healing ✨ Reach out today to book an appointment with our experienced team of counsellors and psychologists.

22/09/2025

Life doesn’t always give us control over circumstances, but it always gives us the power to grow. When the world feels unmovable, remember, you can still move forward by choosing change within yourself. 💙✨

15/09/2025

Repeating the Past: Why We Fall for the Wrong People 💔

Many people wonder why they keep choosing partners who hurt them, even though relationships should bring safety, respect, and support. This pattern often stems from early attachment styles, where childhood experiences of neglect, inconsistency, or criticism shape what feels “normal” in love. Low self-worth and unresolved trauma can reinforce this cycle, leading individuals to tolerate mistreatment, confuse negative attention with affection, or depend on a partner’s approval. Some also repeat unhealthy dynamics in an unconscious attempt to “fix” the past, while cultural messages about loyalty, sacrifice, or dramatic love can normalise toxic relationships. Fear of loneliness can make harmful connections seem less frightening than being alone. Breaking the cycle requires self-awareness, self-compassion, healthy boundaries, and learning what supportive love truly feels like. Therapy can help uncover these patterns, heal past wounds, and build the confidence needed to create relationships rooted in respect and care.

04/09/2025

When Hard Work Hurts: The Trap of “Trying Too Hard” 🏋️

In today’s culture of hustle and perfection, giving your best can feel like the bare minimum, but when effort becomes obsessive it often leads to anxiety, burnout, and low self-worth. A pattern known as “Trying Too Hard” Syndrome. Rooted in fear, insecurity, and the need for approval, it shows up as perfectionism, comparison, people-pleasing, overcommitment at work, imbalance in relationships, and relentless pursuit of an ideal self-image. Unlike healthy effort, which is fuelled by purpose and allows for rest, toxic effort drains energy and reinforces the belief that you’re never enough. The emotional costs include chronic anxiety, exhaustion, and strained relationships. Breaking the cycle requires redefining success, practicing self-compassion, setting boundaries, embracing “good enough,” seeking support, and limiting comparison. Effort becomes fulfilling when it comes from love and purpose, not fear.

29/08/2025

Pause, Acknowledge and Repair 🫶

Conflict in relationships is not necessarily a red flag but can be a healthy and even necessary part of building intimacy when managed constructively. Instead of avoiding disagreements, couples who learn to pause, acknowledge, and repair can turn tension into opportunities for growth. Pausing helps regulate emotions before communication, acknowledging validates each partner’s feelings without blame, and repairing focuses on resolution, reconnection, and rebuilding trust. While unhealthy conflict marked by insults, withdrawal, or manipulation can erode relationships, mindful conflict resolution fosters emotional safety, trust, and deeper bonds. Ultimately, conflict handled with respect and care strengthens relationships by encouraging authenticity, resilience, and intimacy.

25/08/2025

At Breathe Counselling, we know that each person’s story is unique - as is the support they need.
Our team of counsellors bring diverse skills, approaches, and experiences to their work.

Breathe counsellors and Psychologists are committed to providing safe, supportive spaces where clients can reflect, heal, and grow. Whether it’s navigating relationships, overcoming challenges, or finding clarity in life’s transitions, our team is here to walk alongside you.

🕊️ Because everyone deserves a safe place to breathe, reflect, and grow.

19/08/2025

Breaking Through the Barriers to Forgiveness 🤝

Forgiveness can bring freedom from bitterness and improve mental health and relationships, but many struggle with it due to barriers such as deep emotional pain, fear of being hurt again, desire for justice, ego, lack of emotional skills, cultural beliefs, or unresolved self-blame. These obstacles make forgiveness feel like weakness, vulnerability, or surrender, yet true forgiveness is not about excusing harm or reconciling. It's is a personal act of healing and self-liberation. By recognising these barriers and practicing self-compassion, setting boundaries, or seeking support, individuals can gradually release the weight of resentment and move toward peace and emotional freedom. 🕊️

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

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